MERCEXTRA -- Dec 7 -- The highlight of the AlwaysOn Venture Capital
Summit was Guy Kawasaki's panel, "Why Take Venture Capital At All."
This was a contrarian panel featuring five companies that achieved
success without outside capital. Drew Curtis, Founder, Fark, Markus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish, Ramu Yalamanchi, CEO, Hi5, Blake Commagere, Co-Founder, Mogad.
Kawasaki asked everyone how much traffic they were getting. Fark.com
has managed to get 52 million page views a month. Markus Frind gets 1.2
billion page views a month from 50 million unique visitors. Markus
started the company because he needed to learn ASP.net. Hi5 has 35
million unique visitors and 12 billion pages. Blake Commagere,
co-founder of Mogad created the Zombies and Vampires social game. In
five month, there have been 20 million users, five million unique
visitors who are active and the monthly page views are 500 million. FULL ARTICLE @ MERCEXTRA
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